PMHP Overview Flashcards
What is CPD?
Continuing professional development
- process of tracking and documenting skills, knowledge and experience that you gain formally and informally throughout career
- requirement by GDC
- supports dentists in maintaining and updating their skills
Give 3 suggested CPD topics:
- Medical emergencies
- Disinfection and decontamination
- Radiography and radiation protection
What are the 7 components of clinical governance?
ACCESS R
- Clinical effectiveness and research
- Audit
- Risk management
- Education and training
- Service user, carer and public involvement
- Clinical information and IT
- Staffing and staff management
What are the 6 dimensions of healthcare quality?
Safe = avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them
Effective = Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit
Patient centred = Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values
Timely = Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care
Efficient = Avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy
Equitable = Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status
Give 6 members of the dental team that have to be registered with the GDC?
- Dentist
- Dental nurse
- Dental Hygienist
- Dental Therapist
- Orthodontic Therapist
- Dental technicians
What is a clinical audit? What is it for?
Quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcome through systematic review of care against explicit criteria/standards and the implementation of change
Used to observe gaps in knowledge, learning, attitudes, protocols and training
What is the audit cycle?
- Identify problem or issue
- Set criteria and standards
- Observe practise/data collection
- Compare performance with criteria or standards
- Implementing change & following up
What are the three divisions of NHS Scotland dental services?
Primary care = general dental practises
Public dental services = community services
Secondary care = hospital services
What are the four pillars of ethics?
- Autonomy
- Non-maleficence
- Beneficence
- Justice
What is negligence?
The omission to do something which a reasonable practitioner would do, or doing something which a reasonable practitioner would not do.
What is the criteria for clinical negligence?
- Dentist owed a duty of care
- Duty/standard of care was breached
- Breach in care caused or contributed to damage/harm
- Damage was reasonably foreseeable and had negative consequences and effects
What should notes be?
CCCC AL RR
- confidential
- complete
- concise
- current
- accurate
- legible
- retrievable
- retained
Who is on the GDC board?
12 members
- 6 registrants
- 6 lay members
What type of study provides the highest level of evidence?
Systematic reviews of randomised control trials (Cochrane reviews)
List 4 aspects of Systematic Reviews:
- Specific and well formulated question
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Multiple databases searched
- Avoidance of bias
Give 3 study designs:
RCT = effectiveness and efficacy of treatments
Cohort = prospective study
Case control = retrospective study
Case study = one patient report
